Corinth Object: C 1933 680
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 680
Title:   GREEN AND BROWN PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   680
Description:   Plate with shallow, ring foot with inwardly sloping inner edge; shallow, flating straight body curving sharply up to straight, vertical rim with rounded lip.
Decoration:   Green and Brown Painted III according to Morgan's classification. White slip on inner surface to over rim on exterior. Decoration, as described by Morgan: 'broad concentric bands at centre from which radiate four attenuated triangles; in field, four curved halves of slip palmettes; broad band around rim; all designs in green outlined with brown' (Corinth XI, catalogue n. 475, p. 221). Colourless glaze on inner body surface to over rim on exterior.
Material:   Fine, hard, fabric, light red in colour with few (0.25-1.5mm) spherical-angular, red inclusions; few (0.25-1.5mm) spherical-angular, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 6/6 (light red)
2.5 YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Complete profile. Two joining frgts preserve one-third of rim, one-fifth of body, one-sixth of rim.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.052
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. Foot: 0.085,diam. Rim: 0.23
Weight Description:   0.202
Weight:   0.202
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   1160-1200 (Sanders 2003)
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB133 P66
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI, catalogue n. 475, p. 221.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Image: digital 2014 1667
Basket: NB133 P66
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 42 (p. 66)